Shirt collar



Sept. 7, 1954 COSTA 2,688,137

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Patented Sept. 7, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHIRT COLLAR FrankCosta, Verona, Pa.

Application October 22, 1952, Serial No. 316,206

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to improvements in wearing apparel, moreparticularly to collars for dress shirts, and it is among the objectsthereof to provide a collar of a shape to clear the necktie to preventwrinkling of the collar caused by a bulging of the collar band, theinvention bein particularly useful on soft shirts which are susceptibleto wrinkling at the collar.

The invention will become more apparent from a consideration of theaccompanying drawing constituting a part hereof in which like referencecharacters designate like parts and in which Fig. 1 is a view inperspective of the collar and band portion of a dress shirt embodyingthe principles of this invention, and

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the utility of the cut-outportions when the shirt is worn with a necktie.

In the several figures of the drawing the numeral I generally designatesa dress shirt having a soft collar 2 that consists of a neck band 3extending above the shoulders of the shirt and a folded over portion 4cut out at the front to form points 5, the neck band being provided witha button 6 and a conventional buttonhole l as shown.

The feature of the present invention is the cutaway portion 8 of thecollar flap by an arc-shaped cut which is seam stitched as shown at 9.Also I have found that the angular cut 10 on the point can be made atdifferent angles to vary the style effects and to produce different cutstyles than are obtainable by conventional soft collar shirt designs.This is apparent from the appearance of the assembled collar and tie inFig. 2 of the drawing, wherein the arcuate cutaway portion 8 maintainsthe same relation to the knot of the tie regardless of the angle of thecut of the collar lapping portion.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to notch out stificollars to permit the tying of the bow or knots of a size larger thanthe space permitted between tthe edges of the collar and over-lap. Suchdesigns were, however, not concerned about wrinkling since the collarmaterial was either of the cellulose type or stifiiy starched. By theuse of my arcuate cut-out portion in the over-lap of soft collargarments, the tie may be tied and drawn in place without in any mannerwrinkling the collar or causing it to bulge which would result inwrinkling after a few minutes of wear. The are shape cut-out portionprovides two juxtaposed points which when drawn together by a collarclamp or pin will lend the appearance of being joined underneath the tieknot.

Although one embodiment of the invention has been herein illustrated anddescribed, it will be evident to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications may be made in the details of construction Withoutdeparting from the principles herein set forth.

I claim:

In a soft collared shirt for use with neckties of the knot orfour-in-hand type, a collar consisting of a neck band having overlappingends extending above the shoulders of the shirt, and a folded-overcollar flap extending from the top of the band and being of a dimensiongreater than the band, said flap having an arc-shaped cut-out portionexposing the entire area of the band where the ends of the band areoverlapped to form juxtaposed ends, said flap having angular cut loweredges forming the collar points, the arc-shaped cut-out portion of theflaps being of a dimension to clear the knot of the necktie to preventwrinkling of the collar flap caused by bulging of the neck band, andsaid angular cut edges of the juxtaposed ends of the collar flaps beingat an angle to converge at any desired point on the vertical center lineof the collar band.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date D. 45,611 Almaker Apr. 21, 1914 D. 60,619 Kramer Mar. 14, 19222,344,204 Douxmaux Mar. 14, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date674,693 France Oct. 22, 1929

